In the wake of new reports detailing prisoner abuse and murder by American soldiers in Afghani jails, Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai spoke his mind last week:
“It has shocked me totally. We condemn it…We want the U.S. government to take very, very strong action to take away people like that working with their forces in Afghanistan…No […]
Have they relaxed the rules for being a theocrat?
“I’ve never read the Bible cover to cover; maybe I should have.” - Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)
With yesterday’s comments comparing Democrats to Adolf Hitler, maybe he’s been spending too much time reading Mein Kampf
And how does Senator Man-on-Dog further his Christian education?
[he] reads magazines and journals offering […]
Memo to Bob Novak: Howard Dean isn’t running for office anymore. Democrats already know he’s the chairman of their party, and no one else gives a damn. When you waste space in your waste-of-space columns bashing him, it has the exact same effect that your endorsement of Al Sharpton carried: the opposite of […]
When Newsweek published a story alleging that American soldiers flushed pages of the Koran down a toilet in order to humiliate prisoners at Guantanamo, the outrage was palpable. Republican members of Congress called for the magazine’s hide, or at least for the cancellation of subscriptions. Conservatives blamed the magazine for inciting violent riots in Afghanistan […]
George W. Bush’s first significant cave-in to the insane religious right was his inexplicable 2001 decision to limit funding for any human stem cell research to a specific pool of approved lines. Rare for even a pre-9/11 issue, the debate over a national stem cell policy received a lot of attention, and was even […]
Perhaps emboldened and embiggened after proposing a bill that would make it a federal crime to enter a brothel, Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) is organizing a Congressional boycott of Newsweek:
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Deborah Pryce (Ohio), for her part, is urging all Congressional offices to cancel their subscriptions to Newsweek as a way of punishing […]
In a recent mandatory disclosure, we learn that:
The President reported having at least $4.95 million in Treasury notes…
Or are those notes just worthless pieces of paper like the Social Security trust fund?
From Reuters 5/17/05:
The White House called on Newsweek magazine on Tuesday to help repair damage to the U.S. image in the Muslim world from its false report that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran.
Newsweek retracted the report on Monday, saying it could not substantiate a May 9 article contending that an internal military […]
It’s not the accent, it’s not the mustache…must be his removal of Norm Coleman’s intestines.
I’ve always looked at the various investigations surrounding the U.N. Oil-for-Food program with mixed feelings. It was a deeply flawed program from day one with conflicts of interest on all sides leading to corruption seemingly without peer. Originally implemented […]
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer addressing comments by comedian Bill Maher 9/26/01:
“I’m aware of the press reports about what he said. I have not seen the actual transcript of the show itself. But assuming the press reports are right, it’s a terrible thing to say, and it unfortunate. And that’s why — there was […]
